Category Archives: recordings

LPs batch 21: Sibelius and Haydn

Posted on July 5, 2010 by vhk10

By this stage I felt like doing some blocks rather than odd single discs. I finished off the Sibelius symphonies, which are mostly conducted by Karajan or Ashkenazy but we have Kamu doing no. 2. Then it was onto a … Continue reading →

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LPs batch 20: displaying umlauts

Posted on June 29, 2010 by vhk10

Our Sibelius LPs are a nice tidy batch comprising six discs containing the symphonies and a few other well-known pieces. This batch included the ones conducted by Karajan. I’m now beginning to finish certain categories and the last of Mozart’s … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 19 – trying to finish Shostakovich

Posted on June 15, 2010 by vhk10

I realised I’d been neglecting chamber music, so I moved on to an LP of Mozart’s piano quartets with the Beaux Arts trio, followed by a couple of string quartets performed by the Quartetto Italiano. Representing solo piano in this … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 18 – a tasteless sleeve

Posted on May 27, 2010 by vhk10

This batch was largely orchestral music again. It started with an old LP of mine: James Galway ‘The Man with the Golden Flute’ playing assorted pieces which showcase the instrument. One track is a bit notorious: a Moto Perpetuo by … Continue reading →

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merging recordings

Posted on May 25, 2010 by vhk10

In my endeavours to put our LPs onto CD I am very much aware that while a typical LP lasts some 50-55 minutes, the CDs I’m using can hold 80 minutes of music. It should therefore be possible to fit … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 17 – carols and folk poetry

Posted on May 21, 2010 by vhk10

Half of this batch was the rest of the 9-CD Arrau/Chopin box. After the great wodge of Chopin I moved on to Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (as he then was) playing Beethoven’s third piano concerto with Colin Davis and the BBC … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 16 – Chopin on election night

Posted on May 17, 2010 by vhk10

This batch began with Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony with Rattle and the Philharmonia. It was now election night and I interspersed checking on the progress of the election results with recording the single largest item in our LP collection: a nine-LP … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 15 – halfway with psychedelic Popp

Posted on May 10, 2010 by vhk10

Back to a mixed bag. The first two were Hungarotons of the Takacz quartet and a friend playing string quintets by Mozart. Then orchestrations of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and a further inroad into Schubert: the … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 14 – Beethoven symphonies

Posted on May 5, 2010 by vhk10

This is a simple batch to describe as it consisted of a trawl through Beethoven’s symphonies. We have two recordings of the Eroica one of which (Sanderling and the Philharmonia) is about half as long again as the other (Karajan … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 13 – Dvořák is too loud

Posted on April 28, 2010 by vhk10

There was a problem disc in this batch: Kertesz and the LSO playing Dvořák’s 8th symphony, which was recorded at a high level and registered as too loud when I played it in. Will need to re-do at a lower … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 12 – the latest and longest?

Posted on April 22, 2010 by vhk10

I topped and tailed this with some Shostakovich. Firstly, a favourite of mine, a little out of favour at the moment: the Leningrad Symphony, here performed by the Czech Philharmonic under Neumann and paired with the 9th Symphony. At the … Continue reading →

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LPs: batch 11 – the earliest music

Posted on April 19, 2010 by vhk10

This batch contained some more of my earlier LPs – Rudolf Firkusny playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Pittsburgh SO and three Haydn quartets played by assorted Hungarians on an old Turnabout disc with an entertainingly silly sleeve, which include … Continue reading →

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